Sri Lanka appoints a Buddhist monk to ‘take care’ of Islamists within the nation 

After the lethal easter bombings of 2019 which resulted within the dying of greater than 250 individuals, the Buddhist majority nation of Sri Lanka has taken varied punitive steps to curb the rise of Wahhabism and radical Islam within the island nation. Taking a step in the identical route, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa not too long ago appointed a Buddhist monk named Galagodaatte Gnanasara of the Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Power Force) as head of a activity pressure for the institution of the ‘One Country, One law’ idea. According to a gazette notification issued, Gnanasara will lead the 13-member ‘Presidential Task Force’. The panel has been given 4 months to compile a report in order that “all citizens are treated alike in the eye of the law”. The mentioned monk is understood for his hardline ideas on Islam and sources aware about the matter imagine that below him, the nation might see a slew of recent concepts carried out to clip the wings of Islamic radicalism that has grow to be a menace for the island South Asian nation as properly.  Cabinet cleared a proposal for banning Burqa As reported by TFI, Sri Lanka’s Minister for public safety Sarath Weerasekera in March, earlier this yr had signed a paper that sought to ban the full-face masking worn by some Muslim girls on “national security” grounds. In April, the choice was handed by the cabinet as properly. The final hurdle stays the parliament, after which the choice is predicted to be carried out on the bottom.  Sri Lanka had briefly banned the sporting of the burqa. Anybody who has noticed the Sri Lankan polity keenly over the previous few years would have anticipated this transfer.  Read More: Crackdown on Islamic extremism: Sri Lanka all set to ban Burqa, shut down Madrasas Rajapaksa clamping down on radicalsSri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who’s greatest identified for crushing a decades-long insurgency within the north of the nation throughout his stint because the defence secretary, received the elections on the grounds of promising to crack down on extremism. In January 2020, Sri Lanka PM, Mahinda Rajapaksa had ordered the Muslim Religious Affairs Department to register all Madrasas within the nation with the Department. Rajapaksa had additionally directed the officers of the Muslim Religious Affairs Department to re-evaluate the curricula of all Madrasas and to organize an up to date curriculum with the help of the Education Ministry. Read More: Register and revamp all Madrasas: Sri Lanka’s massive transfer to curb Islamic indoctrinationSri Lanka initially had a broad and open neighborhood of Islamic tradition. The change in Islam in Sri Lanka took one other flip, after the sectarian tensions following the Civil War. The concord died out after the extremism within the religion began gaining robust floor. This change was remarkably noticed after the Gulf War. Those who migrated to the Gulf states for work got here again with a sterner pressure of Islam. This is how extremists established a extra inflexible Islam in Sri Lanka. However, the present Rajapaksa administration with its ‘taking no prisoners’ perspective goes all out within the conflict in opposition to radical Islam.